Subject Heading: Courtesans / Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732. / Subject (Topic): Doors & doorways

Published / Created:: [approximately February 1809]
Call Number:: 53 C599 S809
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "The Duke of York sits on a settee with a courtesan on each knee, Mrs. Clarke (left) and (presumably) Mrs. Carey (right). One foot rests on large volumes of 'Army Accompts'; by the other is a smaller book: 'Ovid Art of Love'. A chair is overturned; th...
Alternative Title:: Beggars opera : Act 2, Scene 1
Description:: Title etched below image.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, Wardle, Gwyllym Lloyd, 1762?-1833, and Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Courtesans, Adultery, Sofas, Books, Chairs, Daggers & swords, Tables, Bottles, Fruit, Chandeliers, Pictures, Doors & doorways, Axes, Gallows, Sculpture, and Justice
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Beggars opera Act 2, Scene I. [graphic]